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Court says state health-care plans can’t exclude gender-affirming surgery
A federal appellate court in Richmond became the first in the country to rule that
state health-care plans
must pay for gender-affirming surgeries,
In a major win for transgender rights amid a nationwide wave of anti-trans activism and legislation.

The decision came from a set of cases out of North Carolina and West Virginia,
where state officials argued that their policies were base…

Court says state health-care plans can’t exclude gender-affirming surgery
It was the second ruling this month in favor of trans advocates from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.

Not to argue with the dude, but he’s massively overthought the problem. In the real world, letting anyone from anywhere to log in via SSH if they have a correct username password or crypto key isn’t a common operational need. By default, packets to port 22 should be ignored or externally excluded.
The universe of legitimate users’ client IPs for most SSH-able hosts is minuscule in network terms. Worst case scenario: allow-list by ASN. Or /8.

Rob Ricci (@ricci@discuss.systems)
Attached: 1 image Hey! Let's talk about #SSH and #security! If you've ever looked at SSH server logs you know what I'm about to say: Any SSH server connected to the public Internet is getting bombarded by constant attempts to log in. Not just a few of them. A *lot* of them. Sometimes even dozens per second. And this problem is not going away; it is, in fact, getting worse. And attackers' behavior is changing. The graph attached to this post shows the number of attempted SSH logins per day to…